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cations of more favourable weather, and of the 

 approach of spring ; some of the harbingers of 

 which, belonging to the vegetable kingdom, were 

 already in full bloom ; such as Anemo7ie Jiortensis, 

 Parietaria judaica, Vlantago subulata and Coron- 

 opus, Ornithogalum umbellatiim, Muscari comosum 

 and racemosum, Ixici Bulbocodium, Ranunculus 

 muricatus and parviflorus, and some others. The 

 season being still so cold, hardly any animals were 

 to be found except a Testacella Europd'ci, the 

 Scorpio Italicus, and the more common marine 

 animals, such as Apli/sia depilans, Holothuria 

 elegans, some fish and medusae. 



The meteorological phenomena here were not 

 very different from those observed at Triest. The 

 barometer was at 27° 11' : Reaumur's thermometer 

 in the air was, in the morning, never above 8° ; at 

 noon, 10" — 11°; in the evening, 6° — 7°: in the 

 water, in the morning, 8° — 9°; at noon, 9" — 10°; 

 in the evening, 8° to 8° 5'. The specific gravity of 

 the sea water was 1.0372. The whalebone hy- 

 grometer stood between 39° and 48°. 



The naval officer, who had been sent from Pola 

 to Venice, to bring a new bowsprit from the arsenal, 

 and make inquiry respecting the fate of our con- 

 sort, the frigate Augusta, of which we could obtain 

 no information on the solitary coast of Istria, re- 

 turned in a few days, with the bowsprit, and the 

 news that the Augusta, after losing all her masts, 

 sails, and boats, had sought shelter in the island of 



